Combined bed and stretcher.



E. J. JARDIN.

COMBINED BBD AND STRBTOHER.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 13, 1909.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911,

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EDWARD J'. JARDIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COMBINED BED AND STRETCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 13, 1909.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

Serial No. 489,556.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. JARDIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Combined Beds and Stretchers, ofwhich the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to combination beds and stretchers and its objectis to provide a new and novel arrangement `for hospitals or householduse whereby an invalid may be provided with a bed or may be transportedto some other locality without being molested and put to seriousinconvenience by handling or being obliged to leave his bed. These andother details and objects of the invention will be more fully describedin the following specification, set forth in the claims and illustratedin the drawings, where:

Figure l is a plan view of the combined bed and stretcher. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of same. Fig. 3 is a side view oit the stretcher removedand supported by its handles. Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the handles.Fig. 5 is a detail of the bed construction.

It is frequently necessary to remove an invalid from his bed to one inanother locality and to do so it is necessary to lift him from the bedto a stretcher on which he is carried to the new bed in which he isplaced. This requires several handlings of the patient and theexcitement and annoyance caused by same are often not only painful butinjurious.

The present invention is designed to provide for the removal of aninvalid to other beds or quarters without disturbing him or occupyingmuch time in doing same and the invention consists of a bed made up ot`the usual head and foot pieces 10 and 11 having secured to them rigidlythe brackets 12 to which are pivoted the sectional side pieces made upof the two parts 13 and 14 pivoted together by a pin 15. ln the piece 13is a slot 16, curved on the arc of a circle whose center is the pin 15,and in this slot plays a pin 17 of the piece 14 and which permits of thefolding of the bed as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2 only to a greaterextent and limits the movement ol the parts to hold them in a horizontalposition when desired. As shown in Fig. 5 the sections are locked intheir horizontal position by the pin 18 and perforated spring 19 securedto each bracket and when it is necessary to release same the spring islifted until the pin is disengaged from the hole therein.

'.lhe stretcher is composed ot the side bars 20 and cross bars 21 thelatter carrying the clann'iing bars 2Q 'for the ends of the Inattress 23o't any desired material while the side bars have at their .ends thepivoted handles 24 whose movement is controlled by the pin 25 playing inthe slot QG so that the handle may occupy a horizontal position or anupright position as shown in Fig. 3.

The stretcher normally plays the part of a mattress on the bed and thehandles may be dropped so as to be out of the way. The cross bars 21rest on the side bars of the bed or the brackets and the bed must beextended for use.

Tt is very olten necessary in case ot operations to place the invalid inan inclined position. This may be easily done with this device byresting the cross bar 21 on the head or toot piece or the bar may behung 'from same at the desired height by means ot links and hooks.

Tn case that it is necessary to temporarily remove the stretcher fromthe bed the handles 24 may be used as legs to supportthc stretcher abovethe floor.

lt is obvious that the construction of the details may be modified orotherwise arranged without departing from the essential features abovedescribed.

lVhat l claim as new and desire to secure b v Letters Patent is:

A bed 'frame composed of transversely divided sections. each embodyingside and end bars, the side bars of the respective sections beingpivotallv connected by transverse pivot pins to swing in a verticalplane, the side bars oil one section having stop pins and the side barsof the other section havingl arcuate slots concentric with the pivotpins of their pivotal connections and extending above and below the sameand receiving said In testimony whereof I aiiX iny signature stop pins,laterally projectingl looking,` pins in presence of two Witnesses.

carried by said sicle bars, brackets upon the EDWARD J JARDIN enel barsforming part of the pivotal oonneotions between said bars and the sidebars, l/Vitnesses:

and perforated spring latches upon said JAMES F. DUHAMEL7 brackets toengage said looking pins. MAC 7. CLINTON.

